Merge pull request kubernetes-sigs#4586 from camilamacedo86/enhance-helm

🐛 (helm/v1-alpha): Skip empty directories in chart generation

Author: k8s-ci-robot

pkg/plugins/optional/helm/v1alpha/scaffolds/init.go

@@ -231,16 +231,27 @@ func (s *initScaffolder) copyConfigFiles() error {
 	}
 
 	for _, dir := range configDirs {
-		// Ensure destination directory exists
-		if err := os.MkdirAll(dir.DestDir, os.ModePerm); err != nil {
-			return fmt.Errorf("failed to create directory %s: %v", dir.DestDir, err)
+		// Check if the source directory exists
+		if _, err := os.Stat(dir.SrcDir); os.IsNotExist(err) {
+			// Skip if the source directory does not exist
+			continue
 		}
 
 		files, err := filepath.Glob(filepath.Join(dir.SrcDir, "*.yaml"))
 		if err != nil {
 			return err
 		}
 
+		// Skip processing if the directory is empty (no matching files)
+		if len(files) == 0 {
+			continue
+		}
+
+		// Ensure destination directory exists
+		if err := os.MkdirAll(dir.DestDir, os.ModePerm); err != nil {
+			return fmt.Errorf("failed to create directory %s: %v", dir.DestDir, err)
+		}
+
 		for _, srcFile := range files {
 			destFile := filepath.Join(dir.DestDir, filepath.Base(srcFile))
 			err := copyFileWithHelmLogic(srcFile, destFile, dir.SubDir, s.config.GetProjectName())